| Bela beatriceae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Bela |
| Species: | B. beatriceae |
| Binomial name | |
| Bela beatriceae (Mariottini, 2007) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Bela beatriceae (formerly Brachycythara beatriceae) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 7 mm.
It was described in 2007 by Paolo Mariottini based on shell morphology. It is distinguished from the closely related Brachycythara atlantidea by differences in shell shape, sculpture, and protoconch characteristics [2] .
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This species occurs in the Alboran Sea, part of the Mediterranean Sea and in tropical West Africa waters off the coast off Western Sahara, where it inhabits muddy bottoms.